Chapter 10: Catching the right moment

Later that evening, Chat Noir is finished patrolling the city. He then decided to visit the young girl of the Dupain-Cheng's. He was at their rooftop and noticed that the trap door through the girl's bedroom is open.

"Princess?" Chat whispered as he peeks. The room is awfully dark, it's pitch black there. Using his night vision, he saw that the bed is empty so he jumped in and scan the room fully. A sudden flash appeared revealing Marinette holding a flash light.

"Good evening Chat." Marinette greeted.

"G-Good evening princess, sorry for intruding." Chat said as Marinette switched on the lights.

"That's fine, I was expecting you to be honest."

"You are expecting me?" He repeated, a little surprise.

Marinette let out a soft giggle tilted her head. "That's what I just said chaton."

Chat shyly nodded. He looked at Marinette and noticed her black hoodie with a pair of cat ears on top.

"Nice hoodie by the way." He complimented.

"Thanks, I was getting used to my ears and tail back then I decided to modify my jacket recently." Marinette said admiring her work.

"Why are you expecting me ?" He asked.

"No reason," she replied shrugging innocently. "So can you give me a reason why you're here then."

"I was just patrolling the neighborhood and saw your trapdoor open and-" he replied innocently but that didn't affect the girl.

"Why did you intrude?"

"Umm..."

"You wanted to ask me something right?" Marinette asked as she sat down. She was wearing an annoying smile.

"Yeah..." He replied as he chuckled and gazed at the girl's eyes dreamily.

"I've heard you have a crush on me." Chat said raising Marinette's chin up.

"umm something like that," she tried to fidget and looked shyly at the blonde superhero. "Did Adrien tell you?"

"You can say that." Chat said as he slowly leaned for a kiss but before he could manage to touch her lips with his, he stopped as Marinette's words caught his attention.

"I saw Plagg with Adrien by the way." She said blankly.

"You what?!" He then let go of Marinette and quickly backed away.

"I saw Plagg with Adrien." She repeated. "Does he know your identity?"

Chat Noir blinked and nodded childishly. "Yep, he kinda figure it out, it's a secret I have between us gents, y'know?" he then winked and chuckled nervously.

"I see…can we have a midnight stroll Chat?" Marinette suddenly asked as she began to twitch her eye. "I have the feeling of hanging in a tree for some reason."

Chat Noir blinked in confusion but he let out a chuckle. He then bowed his head as he usually does in front of Ladybug. "As you wish my princess." He then picked up Marinette bridal-style and jumped off the window.

They arrived at the park and Chat decided for them to stay at a tree branch since the princess wants to hang to some tree, they are found sitting at a tree branch and below them is the mighty fountain that Marinette hates.

"Hey Chat!" Marinette called as she looked at the midnight sky above. Chat looked at her curiously. "Let's play a guessing game, you in?"

"Yeah I'm in, what kind of guessing game?" he asked curiously perking his ears up.

"Let's guess how Chat Noir similar is Adrien Agreste?" Marinette said frankly as she still keeps her eyes to the stars.

"Eh? Wait, what?" Chat stuttered as he looked at Marinette with wide eyes.

The girl looked at him curiously. "C'mon Adrien, don't be a kill joy, I know it's you."

"No, no I'm not, It's just how do you even—I mean, do you even have proof?" he asked and he saw Marinette holding a small container that contains small sizes of different kind of cheese.

"Plagg, come out and I'll give you different kind of cheese."Marinette said. A loud beep from the ring was heard and the blonde superhero returned into plain Adrien. As for Plagg, he immediately goes to Marinette's container.

"SERIOUSLY!" Adrien yelled.

"Oh Marinette, thank you very much! I'm starving." Plagg said happily as he happily enjoys himself ignoring the boy's shout.

Adrien stared at his kwami with meanful glares. He couldn't believe how Plagg is so gullible when it comes to cheese. Marinette on the other hand, is basically enjoying herself as she watched the cat kwami devours all her cheese. He turned to Marinette and glared at her. He also couldn't believe how smart the girl is that she outwitted him and Plagg.

"You're a clever girl aren't you?" Adrien complimented sarcastically.

"Thank you mon chaton," she said as she ate one of the cheese in the container

"Let me ask you, how long have you known that it's me?" he asked calmly.

"The day you wear the maid costume." Marinette said simply thus, making the boy blush as hard as ever.

"At first when I saw Plagg on the janitor's closet with us, I wasn't sure so I just let it be but that day when that akuma cat came, you were talking to him and I also saw him eating just around the corner." She continued.

"I-I thought you don't remember those events."

"It's true but I remember some and that's about Plagg."

"I see,"

"Besides, you share the same smell as Chat Noir." Marinette said in a matter of factly.

"Smell?" Adrien repeated as he curiously smells himself.

"I mean, it's like a feeling, instinct that you know who's your mama cat or something?"

By this, Adrien laughed. "So, you see me as your mom? I'm kinda flattered in a weird way here."

"It's the truth, don't you judge me!" she pouted.

"How about let's guess how Marinette Dupain-Cheng is similar to Ladybug, you in?" Adrien snickered as he showed his Chat Noir charisma to her.

"What?" Marinette stuttered. "Oh no, please no, that's not true."

"C'mon Mari, you're completely a kill joy right now, I am serious!"

"H-How even?" Marinette stuttered. She then glared at the boy suspiciously. "How do you even know that?"

"Haaa? Marinette admitted she's Ladybug," Adrien said happily, clapping his hands. "Chat Noir is very happy!"

"I didn't even admit—"

"You did!"

"Nu-uh"

"Yeah-huh."

"Nu-uh"

"You're just killing our time, stop it."

"Do you even have-"

"Proof?" he finished her sentence. "Yes, a number of it."

"how do you even-" Marinette asked but she then hissed when Adrien pinches both her cheeks and try to stretch them.

"You're asking how? I've been taking care of you since your incident and cuz of that I've learned so so, so, much about you." He cooed, he's basically enjoys what he's doing.

"Wike?" Marinette asked while the boy is still enjoying playing with her cheeks.

"Like," he began and let go. "Like how your healing collar is the same as Ladybug's, I asked you and your obviously lying about buying in a same store and the way Ladybug says 'nya' at her last appearance which you often say every last of sentences before," Adrien proudly explained while the girl sat frozen as she listens. "And the most obvious, your pigtails." He pointed it out.

"W-what about my pigtails?" Marinette asked as she tugs her hair.

Adrien sighed before answering. "I thought you were just a fan that you're copying her style but I guess I'm just an idiot for not noticing that you're already in pigtails before I met Ladybug."

Marinette just gulped at how dumb she is that she didn't even really thought her hairstyle will lead to revealing her identity. She was thankful that Alya didn't notice it.

"Yeah me too…" she mumbled as she was biting her lips.

"Did you realize how Chat and I are the same based on appearance as well?" Adrien asked curiously.

Marinette think for it for a moment. "Not really, no." she shook her head making the boy in shock. "It's hard to tell since you have neat hair and Chat's hair is messy but maybe the eyes can have similarities."

A moment of silence appeared between them, They were reflective what kind of idiot they are for not noticing their little details.

"Oh, I almost forgot my last evidence, Plagg told me everything." Adrien said simply.

"Really?" Marinette asked totally in shock.

"WHAATT!" An angry but cute voice was heard from Marinette's little pouch and the little red kwami flew out from her hiding spot and went to the little black one. Tikki is indeed angry.

Plagg flinched and let the cheese he's holding fell to the water. He then kneeled down begging in the air as Tikki is glaring at him.

"Tikki, I'm very sorry, Please forgive me milady!" Plagg begged.

"M-Milady?" Adrien and Marinette mumbled as they stared at the two kwamis.

"When will you learn that you should let them know things on their own?" Tikki scolded.

"I know that it's a secret but it's his fault," Plagg said blaming it to Adrien. Adrien then looked at the little red kwami innocently and shrugged. "He bribed me into telling, he's bribing me for cheese!"

"But you can resist the cheese right?" Tikki asked in disappointed.

"Nope." Plagg, Adrien and Marinette mumbled in sync.

"You always give information to all Chat Noirs about secret identities!" Tikki shouted.

"Tikki, calm down." Marinette said worriedly as she tries to hold Tikki but her kwami avoided her hands and flew closer to Plagg.

"Don't blame me for giving information, you also told some Ladybugs about Chat Noirs because they are madly in love with their Chat Noir and you can't resist of playing matchmaker!" Plagg annoyingly argues.

As the two kwamis continue to argue, Adrien and Marinette exchanged looks and they agreed to catch them in their hands just in case their kwamis started a boxing match at any seconds now. Tikki and Plagg are now trapped in their host's hands.

"Plagg, you won't have cheese until you calm yourself."

"I won't give you cookies if you continue this Tikki…"

"Ha! Marinette's bribing you for cookies!" Plagg teases.
"Shut up Cheese-loving cat!" Tikki yelled.

"You shut up, Anything-sweet-loving critter!" Plagg yelled back.

"SHUT UP!" Adrien bellowed making the three flinched. "Let's talk about this calmly now, at the count of three, we'll let go of you and tell us why are you secretive about revealing of identities, okay?"

The kwamis nodded confidently.

"One….Two….Three…"

"Okay, we've been kwamis ever since," Tikki began.

"And we've been very picky at choosing who our host is," Plagg continued. "Some say, it's fate, destiny, and the likes but NO!"

"Well, we based our host through the connection they have."

"Connection? Like feelings?" Marinette asked.

" Yes, for example." Plagg said in a gentleman way. "They may either be siblings, friends, enemies, acquaintances, soon-to-be acquaintances, rivals, lovers, one-sided love …thing."

"And we basically want them to end up together like marriage or something." Tikki giggled.

"M-MARRIAGE?"

"Except for siblings, because they can't marry each other." Plagg corrected winking at Tikki happily.

"Oh yeah, they basically ended up marrying each other, the ladybugs and chat noirs." Tikki said happily and quickly went back to Marinette's back.

"We basically are fans of Ladybug and Chat Noir's relationship." Plagg said as he admires the flustered of the two. "Hey Tikki, is the camera ready?"

"Yeah, help me carry this Plagg." Tikki said happily. She was carrying a digital camera in her hands.

"Where did that camera come from?" Marinette asked in surprised, looking at the camera the kwamis are struggling to carry.

"I always carry the camera just in case this happen." Tikki said as Plagg is below the camera, carrying it at his back and the red kwami is taking charge of setting the device.

"Now start kissing!" Tikki demanded.

"What?" Adrien and Marinette said in sync, their faces are deep red as they looked at each other.

"Go on, we all know you love each other and have the kiss a gift for us as your kwamis." Plagg said.

"D-did you made the previous Ladybug and Chat noirs do this?" Marinette stuttered.

"Yeah only if they ended up marrying." Plagg replied. "Adrien did told me, he'll propose to Ladybug and her identity at their legal age."

"I was about to take the picture when Chat made the move recently, tsk… can you do it again Adrien?" Tikki requested

Adrien then looked at Marinette who's blushing. He could see that she is very much embarrassed by what their little friends are asking them to do. He is indeed in love with Ladybug and all these times, he tries to flirt and kiss her whenever he has the opportunity to. Now that they finally knew their identities, he also have the urge to kiss the girl beside him. Without hesitation, Adrien leaned closer to Marinette and took her chin and raised her head up to meet the girl's eyes.

"A-A-Adrien?" Marinette stuttered.

"Let's give the audience a favor okay milady?"Adrien then cupped her face and slowly leaned closer and kissed Marinette by the lips. The kiss deepened as Marinette closes her eyes and relaxes. She threw her arms around the boy's neck.

*Flash*

Tikki took the picture immediately and removed the camera at Plagg's back. They fist bumped silently and started giggling. Plagg flew silently at Adrien's ear, leaving Tikki who's still admiring the scene.

"Hey Adrien, mind checking if she purrs." Plagg whispered. "But keep kissing."

Adrien opened his eye a little bit to look at Plagg who flew down to get the last syringe from his pocket. The kwami then flew silently to Marinette at a good distance.

As the two continue kissing, Adrien slide his left hand at the back of Marinette's ear and tickled it. Instead of the sound of small purrs, he heard moans. He then removed the collar and opened his left hand and the kwami gently placed it at his palm and stabbed the needle at her nape.

"AWWW!" Marinette yelled in pain. She then pushed Adrien away resulting him to fall from the tree.

Marinette looked down and see Adrien soaking wet. He was staring at nothingness. "What did you do that for?" she asked irritably as she removed the syringe and massaged her neck.

"You're cat-free girl, you're healed!" Plagg replied calmly.

"Oh, thank you and I'm sorry for pushing you." Marinette said worriedly. "Are you okay?"

Adrien looked up and slowly stood up. "It's fine, I'm sorry for stabbing you with the syringe."

"Okay, now that's over, can we head home? I'm starving," Plagg complain, massaging his tummy.

"Yeah, me too, Marinette hurry up and go down and let's have it a night." Tikki said with a yawn.

"No! I can't jumped down this high, Adrien, please turn to Chat Noir and help me get down please!" Marinette cried.

A/N: I hate to say but this is the end of the story T^T ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

Congratulations that you finished reading, I'm sorry that it's often wrong in grammar or you have trouble understanding it but I'm just skipping words cuz I get so excited at times that I commit some errorrs but either way, I thank you for following the story and giving me your beautiful reviews as well. It motivates me. I have a lot of fun writing and reading your reviews so thank you again. You guys are awesome!

NOTE: Remember when I said in the previous chapter that I was regretting that having Ladrien for this story well, I had a dream and I dream about Ladrien so I got a story to write again but it's NOT a sequel for this fic. I'm still working on it so stay tuned for the upcoming.

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